12 MR. HENRY PAD WICK 



much that he could beat nothing after, and was indeed 

 beaten in turn in a canter at Stockbridge by the others. 



Joe Miller was second to Frantic for the Goodwood 

 Nursery Stakes, and would have won had he not been 

 shut in opposite the stand. Yet Mr. Padwick would not 

 see his merits even here, and asked Alfred to ride him 

 for the King John Stakes at Egham, when he was last. 

 Now the latter, it pleased Mr. Padwick to conclude, was 

 his true form ; that, in short, the horse was good for 

 nothing, and that he would be wise to get rid of his share 

 in him. Mr. Frances Clarke (the ' Pegasus ' of Bell's 

 Life in those days), a friend of all parties, was called in 

 to say what Mr. Padwick's share was worth, and he put 

 it at 750, or about double what it would have fetched 

 at public auction. Yet, as it turned out the next year, 

 this proved to be but a tithe of his value ; for he won 

 among other races the Chester Cup, beating forty- two 

 other horses, and the Emperor's Plate at Ascot, in which 

 Voltigeur, Hobbie Noble, and six others were behind him, 

 3,830 being the value of the stakes. Fortunately Pad- 

 wick backed him for the Cup, and thus had a little salve 

 to his hasty indiscretion in parting with him. 



I have referred to the mistake he made with Alvediston. 

 In connection with his purchase of this animal from me, 

 at the time being known as The Crossfire Colt, Mr. 

 Padwick's subsequent attitude was characteristic if 

 original. In the autumn of 1860 he came with Lord 

 Westmoreland to buy two horses Schism and The Cross- 

 fire Colt. His lordship took the former for 1,500, and 

 Mr. Padwick the colt for 600, with the proviso that 

 400 more should be paid on his winning 1,000 a sum 

 duly paid over the New Stakes at Ascot. Schism's per- 

 formances were well known, and from them his lordship 

 could judge of her value, and in taking her at the sum as 



